Labor Day: Yeh bacha kis ka bacha hai

Posted on May 1, 2009
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Roshan Malik and Adil Najam (Note: I post this today from Paris, France; a place that celebrates this date – May 1, Labour Day – quite seriously. This post was first carried at ATP in September 2006, but it is still relevant, especially in the context of child labor, and deserves more attention this Labor […]

The Window

Posted on April 29, 2009
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Muslim Rizvi It was just another ordinary Tuesday evening in a typical suburban Toronto neighborhood, punctuated only by a lively WhatsApp thread where old university friends were logging on to play poker for real money, stubbornly debating the mathematical fairness of the platform’s random number generator before dealing their first hand. That distant, digital camaraderie […]

Why Pakistan Will Not Become a Theocracy

Posted on April 27, 2009
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Manan Ahmed (Sepoy @ Chapati Mystery) The Pakistani Parliament has now passed the bill authorizing Sharia laws in Swat – and perhaps in other territories. Punjab, according to the NYT report, United Militants Threaten Pakistan’s Populous Heart is also in grave danger of going Islamic in a meta-way. Baluchistan has broken out into violence and […]

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